by Dave McComb | Feb 12, 2021 | Business Case & ROI
Let’s Stop Basing Capital Cost Decisions on Lagging Indicators. Remember the good old days of emerging digital technology? Accessing information through a dial-up internet connection. Saving data to floppy discs or CDs. Sending emails to have them printed for storage....
by Dave McComb | Dec 2, 2020 | Business Case & ROI
We’ve been working on something we call “SemOps” (like DevOps but for Semantic Technology + IT Operations). The basic idea is how can we create a pipeline to go from proposed enterprise ontology or taxonomy enhancements to “in-production” as frictionlessly as...
by Dave McComb | Sep 2, 2020 | Business Case & ROI
We just finished a conversation with a client who was justifiably proud of having centralized what had previously been a very decentralized business function (in this case, it was HR, but it could have been any of a number of functions). They had seemingly achieved...
by Dave McComb | Jun 17, 2020 | Business Case & ROI
Recently IDC predicted that IT spending will drop by 5% due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Last week, Gartner went further by predicting that IT spending would drop by 8% or $300 Billion.[2] (Expect a prediction bidding war.) Both were consistent: highest hit areas...
by Dave McComb | Mar 3, 2020 | Business Case & ROI
In our previous installment of this two-part series we introduced a couple of ideas. First, data governance may be more similar to DevOps than first meets the eye. Second, the rise of Knowledge Graphs, Semantics and Data-Centric development will bring with it the need...
by Dave McComb | Aug 20, 2019 | Business Case & ROI
In 1986 I started down a path that, in 2019, has made me a fledgling Data-Centric revolution practitioner. My path towards the Data-Centric revolution started in 1986 with my wife and I founding two micro-businesses in the music and micro-manufacturing industries. In...
